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Tuesday is Most Popular Day for Automotive Social Media

05/30/2012 by  James Baron

Sunday is the busiest day for social media platforms overall, but automotive topics gain a boost on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to new analysis from Socialbakers.  Data from the social media and digital analytics company shows that with the automotive space, the greatest triggers of consumer interaction are posts containing visual content, such as album updates [...]

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New Facebook Learnist Shows What Your Friends Are learning

05/28/2012 by  SMCE

The Pinterest-like website for learning that the founders of Grockit launched Thursday now has a Facebook integration that shows your friends what you’re learning. Learnist, the newly launched product, allows anyone to compile content pieces onto a board (they call it a “learning”) that may look familiar. Unlike Pinterest, however, creators suggest a path in which to consume [...]

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Microsoft Launches New Social Network – So.cl

05/25/2012 by  SMCE

Microsoft’s research-oriented FUSE Labs launched a new, student-oriented social network last weekend. While very much an experimental product at this point, So.cl (pronounced “social”) does highlight once more that the Redmond-based software giant is keen to keep its boffins thinking outside the box in order to find the next big thing, first. College Students Only [...]

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The History of Social Recruiting – Infographic

05/14/2012 by  social media council

Digital recruiting has become a very popular method for companies to find new talent for their vacancies. It can bypass the expensive job agencies and target specific qualities in a candidate that are required for the position.  Social recruiting falls into two different categories. The first is internet sourcing using social media profiles, blogs, and [...]

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Slideshare Emerging as Big Player in Social Media

04/27/2012 by  James Baron

Slideshare, the popular slide hosting service has been labelled as, among other things, the “YouTube of slide presentations,” the “quiet giant of content marketing” and the “dark horse of B2B marketing.” These may seem like slightly back handed compliments, but according to many B2B marketers, SlideShare delivers one thing other social media sites often struggle to [...]

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Are Comments Important to Drive Media Success in a Social World?

04/26/2012 by  James Baron

Commenting on websites is more popular now than it’s ever been before. Be it the demented rants on Youtube, the anti-West tirades on The Guardian, or the friendly banter on Facebook, there are many people interested in starting a discussion on any platform that has a comments section. Could this be a new, untapped resource [...]

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GigaOm Launches Europe Focused Channel and will host Structure

GigaOm Launches Europe Focused Channel and will host Structure:Europe 2012

04/23/2012 by  James Baron

GigaOm was founded in 2006 and is currently the leading independent voice on emerging technologies and media disruption. Their online news network has an audience of 5.5 million monthly unique readers who all rely on its definitive coverage of cloud, mobile, cleantech, consumer web and media. GigaOm has now decided to focus it’s attention on European technology [...]

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The Fancy

Pinterest Faces New High-End Rival – The Fancy

04/11/2012 by  James Baron

Pinterest was recently named the 3rd largest social network in the US, and with around 11 million users it’s not hard to see why. The user friendly photo sharing platform appeals to the majority of social networkers and has carved out a formidable name for itself. Recently however, there arrived another player on the Social Photo [...]

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Russian Social Media – Becoming the Grown-ups: Part 1

04/10/2012 by  Olga Pavlovska

The growth of communications in Russian digital space is ahead of the boldest predictions. A huge number of companies have  already realized the potential of the rapidly growing Social Media phenomenon. Other companies in Russia are only just getting acquainted with it but already have an idea ​​of the positive effect its application can have on [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Vision: Facebook and a new Disruptive Social Open Economy: Part 3

04/04/2012 by  Dinis Guarda

Rewiring the World. “Facebook’s Open Graph invests in what I refer to as the Egosystem, a network in which each person is at the center of their own universe. Each app now extends the persona of each individual, where they tell their story through updates and actions and tailor engagement based on what they do [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Vision: Facebook and a new Disruptive Social Open Economy: Part 1

04/02/2012 by  Dinis Guarda

Mark Zuckerberg is not your average 27-year-old young man – or even your average entrepreneur. This CEO’s story is more than just that of the Harvard dropout who started Facebook in 2004, having never previously had a full-time job. Zuckerberg then moved to Silicon Valley and managed to create the most influential and high profile [...]

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How to co-create a community

Social Media Council Europe Insights on How to Co-create a Community

03/02/2012 by  Steffen Hueck

I am happy to announce we are now on phase two of the process and wanted to open things up to a wider group in order to share some of the interesting insights so far and allow for increased participation.  So we decided to put out an open call to all client-side Social Media Practitioners [...]

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